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the republican party nomination for the us presidency promising to get tough with. issues like abortion and has already undermine his credibility. from our studios in central moscow this is. your top stories russian billionaire. emerges victorious in a high profile court duel with london based compatriot in one of the most expensive cases in british legal history the judge dismissed the multibillion dollar challenge from controversial tycoon. in a trial which offered a rare glimpse into the lives of the super rich. the final verdict in this case

found against bodies which means that he won't receive a cent of the more than five point six billion dollars that he was asking for for a. run up but i want to promote himself was not in court this morning but his old scheme was he a relieved looking very upbeat saying that he had full confidence in the british legal system but once the verdict was being read he held his head in his hands and as he was leaving he appears to have lost confidence in the british legal system now this is a case that has opened up for the viewing of the general public the milky world of russia's mega rich and what they go to up to back in the one nine hundred ninety s. the wild east as we called it back that we're talking about used to have sums of money off shore bank accounts elicit payments made between people often in massive sums of cash. or of kools five star hotels ski resorts and enormous business deals done only on the strength of

a handshake with no documentation which of course has made this case a very difficult one to judge it's brought to london to school building billion ads along with their own megger expensive lawyers and bodyguards who walked around this course area in their shades in a menacing way but he spread his old ski says that he was done out of billions of dollars when he says that i'm over it intimidates him into selling shares in russian metals and oil companies for a fraction of what they were but abramovich says that in fact. we never business partners that he was making payments to but they were only for political protection . roof in russian which has become a common hollins in the legal circles here in london as a result of this case is that he did make regular payments to. full of political protection but he says. that anything to do with the. huge cash.

hundred million dollars he says that he paid. in a private jet. that he received back in two thousand and. one of the biggest. hundred. so there is. no. timeline and all the claims. and you can find out what happened inside the courtroom.

and he's considering an appeal. to be. turkey's call for a safe zone in syria has. the u.n. with the security council still deeply divided on how to deal with the crisis. refugee camps inside the country a move that would amount to military intervention several countries expressed strong reservations about militarizing a humanitarian effort. could be prepared to bypass the security council with the conflict worse and. is also skeptical of a no fly zone questioning who would be most likely to benefit from such

a move. this is not than humanitarian case what should be done is to follow is to push for a negotiation for a dialogue between the syrian leadership and when to oppose these shows for example next month we have the internal opposition meeting inside i'm not suppose i'm going to part of a risk to syria so why do is there is this are not helping the syrians for a political solution why they are arming them trying to see. how these. and the fundamentalists in syria sided by and by the carried out at that. against the secular states like syria i'm going to work well kind of studio expecting in the future about syria falls in behind this experience of go and be cohesion of the syrian society will be totally collapsed between the house and i because it is the action of the whole of the mid-east still ahead for you on our team leaks weighs in on syria. julian assad promises more revelations on the western motives in the

crisis and blasts u.s. harassment of his whistle blowing web site. un secretary general ban ki moon has condemned threats by the u.s. and israel to strike iran this comes after tehran rejected the latest report by the un's nuclear watchdog as a political move the report claims the country has doubled its uranium production at the fordo facility eric draitser who is a geo political analyst for stop imperialism dot com believes iran cannot be blamed for standing up for itself in the face of the us israeli pressure. the iranians do it partially for self preservation they also do it for propaganda purposes and to lend themselves clout on the world stage they have the inherent right according to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty that they have the right to have a nuclear program so long as it's for peaceful purposes as is now accepted international law so i think that's the first one the second one of course is the geo political reality that they look around them you look at the map and they see

that they are surrounded literally on all sides by the united states or various allies of the united states and the principle is quite clear that the united states will invade nations that do not have the threat of nuclear weapons and the united states does not invade the nations that do have that threat the i am a in many ways is part of what the leader in iran called the overt dictatorship of the united nations that is to say that the i.a.e.a. is always led by us produced think tank individuals like l. bara die or his predecessors who will inevitably execute the agenda of the western powers regardless of whether that contravenes international law mitt romney has accepted the nomination of the republican party as their candidate for the u.s. presidency while outlining his strategy at the party convention he warned he would take a tougher stance against many countries including russia critics have been questioning romney's claims because of his frequent flip flopping on

a host of vital issues are to use a gun and to count comments. mitt romney is now officially barack obama's opponent for the white house and he's talking tough throwing rocks well verbal rocks not only the president but also nations at the republican convention where he accepted his nomination mr romney did not fail to once again highlight his any masorti towards russia he criticized the president for not being hard enough in his view on russia when it comes to missile defense mitt romney says under his administration quote mr porson will see less flexibility and more backbone end of quote and of course that adds up to his earlier statements that russia is america's number one job political enemy and that they need to reset the reset that's actually what he says on his website as part of mitt romney's foreign policy agenda so yes a lot of tough talk i heard experts say that's how mitt romney makes up for a lack of charisma what's interesting about the backbone comment is that mitt

romney himself is often characterized as lacking the backbone as he has flip flopped on so many issues like abortion he was for abortion before he was against it or illegal immigration he was for giving them legal status that he was for deporting them mitt romney is flip flops have been widely discussed they've become an endless source of inspiration for comedians this is this is from the tonight show with jay leno it says actually mitt romney and hurricane isaac have something in common they can both change directions at any moment and another comedian goes obama is like you can be whatever you want to be while romney is like i can be whatever you want me to be there are tons of jokes about new romney and his backbone issues apparently one way of showing some backbone for him is this kind of tough talk full of threats we'll see how far it will take him in this november

election. still ahead for you this hour the u.s. justice system prefers to turn a blind eye when it comes to the misdeeds of its intelligence agency washington comes under fire for shutting down the last investigation into the cia's alleged torture of prisoners. and in germany r t looks at how the deutschmark still seems to be going strong alongside a struggling europe. julian assad has promised to keep publishing millions of emails to cast a new light on the syrian crisis in a rare interview given to a south american t.v. network they are promised to to show just how comfortable the west once was with president assad and how the media is currently being manipulated to vilify him assad has also criticized washington's harassment of wiki leaks saying speaking the truth should never be considered a crime he mentioned how the west is turning into a surveillance mega state which he believes makes a mockery of human rights the whistleblower voiced his belief that the case against

him is really a case against wiki leaks but he remains hopeful that the swedish prosecutors will eventually drop the investigation laws carry a leader of the u.k. pirate party says that it is important for wiki leaks to focus on its activities despite a sonorous legal wrangling it's. very useful to see which leaks getting back and focusing on its real mission and that's about opening up governments and actually really revealing useful useful information we'll have to see what this brings one of the recent was some of the recent revelations coming through which have been about the traffic what the trap wants the way the system which has very significant implications also here in the united kingdom the trouble really is the moment it's very difficult to get this message out while the current standoff continues about to say with that mark not distract from the ongoing point that for

x. to have a greater transparency and a greater powers the freedom of information that's necessary here in the u.k. would right across the world. the us justice department has closed its investigation into the cia's alleged torture of a terrorist a detainee without bringing any charges because he is concerned the deaths of two suspects at the agency's detention facilities in iraq and afghanistan u.s. based activist deborah sweet says there's not much chance of further legal action in the case despite strong evidence of abuse the world's population would have to hope that the cia the u.s. military and the u.s. government has not literally gotten away with murder again this possibly opens the door for international prosecution and findings that the u.s. indeed broke international law as many people around the world think it did and has repeatedly and this eleven year long war on terror people do die in war

there are bodies here of men who were tortured frozen to death men who died with their hands over held over their heads chained in freezing temperatures who were beaten these are men who were killed by homicide not in war at the hands of the cia the obama administration which came in promising to put an end to torture can only find fit to prosecute whistleblowers. don't forget to log on to our web site for the latest news videos here's a taste of what's there for you right now. a new all. the latest updates on u.s. military drone strikes including a body count. was not approved by. a vision of the future. being implanted with the world's first.

time for. a look at some other international news in brief for you this hour. at least twelve people have been killed and up to twenty injured after a powerful car bomb went off at a market in northwest pakistan there's been no claim of responsibility so far the region has recently seen a rise in attacks mostly associated with the taleban around five thousand people. a day over the past year. south africa's justice minister has demanded an explanation over the decision to charge almost three hundred with the murder of thirty four coworkers despite the fact the victims were killed by police prosecutors claim officers were provokes during the incident two weeks ago and opened fire only after

on protesters. but there is huge public outrage with many believing the government is trying to shift the blame the incident was the bloodiest in the country's history since it became a democracy in one thousand nine hundred four. a massive wildfire in southern spain has left at least one dead and forced around four thousand people to flee their homes firefighters are still battling to get the blaze under control authorities believe the fire was started deliberately spain's countryside has been especially dry the summer because of a prolonged heat wave. while germany is doing everything in its power to keep the euro from sinking the germans are proving reluctant to let go of their old currency the deutsche mark all of the details of old school savings. here in germany the don't trot is still very much alive and kicking in fact in the store in central berlin the good old they market is still accepted as legal tender when it comes to purchases with an exchange rate of around two dollars each marks

to the euro the store's manager says that there's still enough of the old currency around to warrant them taking it went on to name the reason we accept which marks is there are still plenty of people with the old currency we get quite a few people wanting to spend them in our store for it's not just in shops that they're accepted if you find a few demarche coins down the back of the sofa germany's public telephones will happily take them off your hands germany they surely dropped the old money for the euro over ten years ago in two thousand and eleven alone though over eight million marks were brought to the bundesbank to be changed into crisp new currency but where is that cash coming from. he had to dismiss any one of my other leave relatives gave me the school and as a gift so i decided to send them into something it could spend on television. we've had them lying around the house for ages we've only just got around to getting

democrats changed or there are all those though who say they won't part with their marks as a minister yeah i've got some i keep them as a souvenir and i'm not going to change them into europe and according to the bundles bank there's still more than thirteen billion dollars each marks in circulation they say they get returns from as far away as brazil and new zealand so unlike some euro zone members the bank won't place a time limit on accepting old money. so we will continue to take them as long as people can bring them in something of a tradition here that currency from years and years ago always be exchanged for legal tender there are conspiracy theory. though who say that in the banks bolts trillions of mach's being stockpiled should the euro crisis deepen only only rumors so if the cash that's returned isn't being kept for

a rainy day what happens to it and once the exchanges completes those deutsche marks the shredded ending their days as very expensive confetti feature all of a r.t. . well next hour to talk to a scholar and a researcher ivan eland to get a comprehensive view of the u.s. presidential elections.

what do you read into the g.o.p. convention well conventions in the u.s. now are sort of a beauty contest they're not they used to be in the history they used to have a lot more effect the nominee was actually chosen at the conventions but now we have a party primary and caucus system which does that so it's just sort of a coronation of the nominee of the particular party and they just script them pretty heavily romney has complete control over the conference convention there of a sort of you ron paul supporters that kicked up a little bit but largely even ron paul is playing the game inside the party so you don't see hardly any disputes or anything like that over the platform or anything else and no surprises all all the romney started at a very the beginning of his campaign was very rough there was a lot of competition a lot of other candidates so basically this credit i have and yet now at the

convention it seems as the g.o.p. just wants from need to be the president yes well they've all that's the tradition in american politics usually is they have about a battle during the primaries call each other all sorts of names criticize each other's. and then all of a sudden you see people who are criticizing him before when he gets enough electoral i mean convention delegates they'll split up and then start supporting him so is it romney's time do you think now for the u.s. well usually there on the republican side they they nominate the person who lost last time the next in line the democrats are a little bit more if he but but i think it basically comes down to these conventions and surface surface phenomena at the don't really mean much people who actually study elections in the u.s. say it's not really between two candidates it's a referendum on the current in a straight and so you know they could have almost anybody running and the economy is bad and it's going to be very close but i think some of the models predict obama

still leaking it out a very close victory but it's going to be close so those models could be off as well but i think obama has an intrinsic. advantage in the electoral college because in the united states you know we don't. as we saw on t.v. thousand election we don't elect the president on the popular vote it can sometimes be different in the electoral college so we really don't have a national election we have a state by state election and so the. candidates have to win so many states which add up to two hundred seventy electoral votes and so that can sometimes differ from the national got the popular vote totals so this could be another election where that happens we'll see obama as a slight edge in the electoral map do you think he's able to move to appeal to the middle well not as much i guess somewhat it's hard to say where he stands on many

issues he's kind of moved around enough that's believable but after you do that and now if people just you know stick you with the flip flopper type thing flipping back and forth between you know views like john kerry was labeled with that. a while back for the demo the democratic side you know if you're inconsistent on your and mitt romney has been inconsistent on abortion assault weapons ban and even on health care yes in fact obama and mitt romney have switched positions because used to be obama was against his own what became his own healthcare plan because hillary originally proposed it during the primaries and of course mitt romney was the guy who dreamed up the whole thing as governor of massachusetts and now he's against that sort of thing so you never know what's going to happen or what position they're going to take on foreign policy is it seems as if economy. jobs these are the main factors of the elections here about what about foreign policy

and do you think that romney has any advantage or writes well i if anything i think he has the last advantage he's trying to make a big deal about the iran thing but you know obama killed osama bin laden and here are some of bin laden is bill and number one and you know it took them ten years and george w. bush never got them so that's a feather in his cap here in the united states i think. romney has been very hawkish but people are tired of two wars here they want to get out of these war so i don't think if anything that's a detriment to him that he's got all these neoconservative hawkish foreign policy advisers foreign policy won't traditionally hasn't provided played much in u.s. elections because it's usually domestic issues and the economy and in this case it's even more so since we've had this long recession and now a long sluggish period of recovery so i think even more so people are turning inward because they want to get rid of these wars and you know get back to what

they're doing and that's why it's going to be on domestic issues so if anything i think foreign policy his views probably are handicapped form and less than three months left for the elections about my state leading the the think. that's going to be the case for until november sixth already d.c. that he's well while the polls there are about even depending on which polls but those polls don't mean anything because it's state by state and i think you have to look at the electoral map and obama does have an edge there although they kind of his bad do you think he needs a miracle for the economy to keep that lead in the elections or is it also the fact that romney has issues with health care with the economy it's not going to help obama but he'll probably will he's probably benefit from those these groups that have become disaffected with republicans like hispanics you know and that sort of thing and i think he's got an electoral edge because of that.

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